Places to explore near Brentford StationBrentford

London to Birmingham by water — the trunk route of the canal age, with arms reaching Leicester, Aylesbury, Northampton and Paddington.

0.4 km SW · spans 9 counties

The river from its Cotswold trickle to the Thames Barrier — the gentlest long walk in Britain.

0.5 km SE · spans 7 counties

World Heritage botanic garden of the Palm House and the Pagoda.

1.7 km S

A Robert Adam mansion and its lakes, hemmed in by the west London suburbs but still a proper green escape

2.9 km W

A 1720s Palladian villa built for a royal mistress, with Alexander Pope's input.

4.2 km S

A rare survival of a grand Stuart house, with formal 17th-century gardens right on the Thames at Richmond

5 km S

London's largest royal park, roamed by red and fallow deer.

5.8 km SE

Horace Walpole's self-styled little Gothic castle of 1749, which launched the Gothic Revival.

5.8 km S · London

The non-tidal Thames — 45 locks of managed river between Cricklade's meadows and the tideway at Teddington.

6.5 km S · spans 7 counties

The Bishops of London's country home for over a thousand years, with a 1490s Tudor courtyard.

6.9 km E

Queen Caroline's 1720s pleasure garden, with J.M. Barrie's Peter Pan statue by the Long Water.

9.4 km E

Henry VIII's Thames-side palace, with Wren's baroque wing and the maze.

9.5 km S

London's inner orbital walk, stringing together 78 miles of parks, canals and viewpoints through the middle suburbs.

0.4 km SW · London

A National Trust place in London.

3.8 km SE

A tree-lined promenade of about 1700 above a much-painted Thames view.

4 km S

The 'M25 for walkers' — an orbital path through outer London's woods, commons and river valleys from Erith to Purfleet.

5.9 km SW · spans 5 counties